Bicycle-saddle



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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN H. HOBART BURGE, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

BICYCLE-SADDLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 595,434, dated December 14, 1897.

Application filed October 20, 1896. Serial No. 609 ,890. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I,J OHN H. HOBART BURGE, residingin Brooklyn, county of Kings, State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bicycle-Saddles, of which-the following is a specification.

My invention relates to bicycle-saddles and will be understood by referring to the accompanying drawings, forming part hereof, to which reference is hereby made, and in which-- 1 Figure l is a plan view of the saddle, which shows in dotted lines the positions which may be occupied by the pads when shifted. Fig. 2 is an underneath plan View of the saddle, showing the saddle plate or body and the adj usting devices for the pads. Fig. 3 is a section on line 3 3 of Fig. 1.

My invention has for its special object to provide a bicycle-saddle which may be adjusted to suit the convenience and comfort of the user.

To this end my invention. consists in the construction of bicycle-saddle herein set forth and claimed.

Referring to the drawings, A is a saddlebody, which is shown in the present instance as a curved plate having a semicircular outline at the rear thereof and V-shaped in front. This saddle-plate is shown as provided with slots ato facilitate the adjustment of the pads.

Carried upon the upper surface of the plate or saddle body are pads B B B which may be of any suitable number and suitably shaped. These pads may be of any desired material or character. In the present instance I have shown the pads B B as triangular and the rear pad B as ovaloid. It will be understood, however, that the pads, as well as the saddle-body, may be of any suitable shape. In the present case the padB is carried by a triangular supporting-plate D,which is provided with a set-screw d, which passes through a slot at in the saddle-body and is provided with a wing-nut e. The pad B is shown as mounted upon a base or supporting plate D, which is provided with a set-screw 6',

upon which a wing-nut d works. The rear pad B is shown as mounted upon a base or supporting plate D which is provided with a set-screw 01 as in the former cases, upon which works a wing-nut e By these means the pads may be adjusted, as will be hereinafter explained.

The saddle may be suitably mounted-as, for instance, in the manner shown-by means of a bracket E, upon which a clip F is engaged, the said clip freely working upon the bracket or brace E, which is bowed for that purpose. Working in the clip F is a moving brace or grip f and a set-screw g, between which grip and set-screw the seat-post of the bicycle maybe gripped, so that the saddle may be inclined backward and forward by shift ing the bowed portion of the bracket ein the clip and thereupon gripping the parts in place by screwing down upon the set-screw. It will be observed that the pads of the saddle, being secured to the base-plate by a set-screw connection, may be moved outwardly and inwardly and swung upon the set-screw as a pivot, thereby giving to the said pads a universal motion in the plane of the plate A. It willlikewise be observed that the rear curved portion of the saddle-body, cooperating with the plate D of the pad B will serve to center the said 'pad irrespective of the position in whichit may be placed by the user and that this rear or posterior pad may be adjusted far enough forward to abut against the rear ends of the front pads, so as to form a continuation thereof,or may be adjusted far enough back as to form a back or posterior support. This pad is in the drawings shown in full lines in its intermediate position in Fig. l and in dotted lines in one of its retracted positions.

It will thus be observed that I have devised a saddle whose essential operating parts may be adjusted to any desired position by the user.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. Ina saddle, the combination of a saddleplate, curved upward at the rear thereof, a plurality of triangular pads adj ustably connected to the saddle-plate, forming the front of the saddle, and a rear pad adjustable longitudinally of the saddle on the curved portion of the said saddle-plate.

2. The combination of a saddle-body having a curved rear portion substantially as described, combined with adjustable pads, the

a saddle-body, front pads extending longitudinally of the saddle-body and adjustable laterally with respect thereto, and a rearpad extending laterally of the saddle-body and adjustable longitudinally thereof.

J OIIN H. HOBART BURGE.

\Vitnesses:

GEo. E. MORSE, MAURICE BLOCK. 

